>Good code reviews seem to me to provide most of the upside of pair programming with none of the downside. Your suspicions are accurate. I can't find it right

>Good code reviews seem to me to provide most of the upside of pair programming with none of the downside. Your suspicions are accurate. I can't find it right now, but I remember reading a thorough study on software and the bugs eliminated by various processes. It was code reviews (multiple variations of them, in fact) that stood head and shoulders above the rest in preventing bugs from reaching production.